so i either figure this out or its a super valuable, upgraded computer down the drain. I've been researching this for about 3 months and it seems that the only way to sell this POS apple paperweight, is to either succeed at what im trying (and my specific problem seems to be either extremely rare or non existent), or get Apple to gift me store credit for the OS X that i need. Download macOS Catalina (or another version) from the Mac App Store. Upon holding option key on boot, my recovery drive shows, and nothing else. You need a USB stick with at least 16GB of storage. the download contained only a dmg file and i used TransMac on windows to create the bootable usb. Except the last supported OS for my mac is El Capitan, which is the ONLY OS that cant be downloaded from Apple's website (why? thats really stupid), so i downloaded the install dmg from a 3rd party site. 15.2 You must download special drivers for your Windows installation to successfully utilize Mac hardware.
So I attempted to make a bootable USB drive. I made the terrible mistake of wiping my drive so i could sell the mac, and realized i cannot reinstall OS x without being the original owner of the mac.
